Jini Reddy
@jinireddy.bsky.social
Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
The #WimbledonBookFest is 🔥🔥🔥 this year. Been to sold-out talks with Nussaibah Younis, Sanam Mahloudji, Julea Kim, Ela Lee, Park Seolyeon, Nikita Gill, Elodie Harper, Matthew Teller and Mahmoud Muna. All absorbing, thought-provoking & enriching! Bravo to the team! 👏🏽👏🏽
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The #WimbledonBookFest is 🔥🔥🔥 this year. Been to sold-out talks with Nussaibah Younis, Sanam Mahloudji, Julea Kim, Ela Lee, Park Seolyeon, Nikita Gill, Elodie Harper, Matthew Teller and Mahmoud Muna. All absorbing, thought-provoking & enriching! Bravo to the team! 👏🏽👏🏽
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ICYMI: More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses” as they face an “existential crisis” 👇
Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support
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October 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
ICYMI: More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses” as they face an “existential crisis” 👇
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
‘They’d allowed me to enter realms of darkness, guiding me through and showing me beauty where my fears once lay.’ - @monisharajesh.bsky.social on the gift of night trains, in her new and lovely book, Moonlight Express. #travelwriting
September 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
‘They’d allowed me to enter realms of darkness, guiding me through and showing me beauty where my fears once lay.’ - @monisharajesh.bsky.social on the gift of night trains, in her new and lovely book, Moonlight Express. #travelwriting
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Continuing my summer reading, just finished Wanderland by @jinireddy.bsky.social . Brilliant book.
August 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Continuing my summer reading, just finished Wanderland by @jinireddy.bsky.social . Brilliant book.
Fundamentally by @nussaibah.bsky.social is brilliant!
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fundamentally by @nussaibah.bsky.social is brilliant!
My feature on central Montenegro, strikingly beautiful and often overlooked by visitors, is in today’s @theguardian.com ! Many thanks to Jane Dunford for commissioning.
July 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My feature on central Montenegro, strikingly beautiful and often overlooked by visitors, is in today’s @theguardian.com ! Many thanks to Jane Dunford for commissioning.
Montenegro - views on a bike ride down to Lake Skadar, a bird paradise.
May 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Montenegro - views on a bike ride down to Lake Skadar, a bird paradise.
Such a moving celebration of powerful new work by Gazan artist Malak Mattar at Central St Martins yesterday eve.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Such a moving celebration of powerful new work by Gazan artist Malak Mattar at Central St Martins yesterday eve.
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‘Why travel didn’t bring the world together’ Interesting piece by columnist Janan Ganesh in @ftweekend.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
‘Why travel didn’t bring the world together’ Interesting piece by columnist Janan Ganesh in @ftweekend.com
‘His essays portrayed the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience…’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary
Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
‘His essays portrayed the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience…’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Not to be missed! In aid of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not to be missed! In aid of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon. Peak flower!
April 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon. Peak flower!
Sand, sea, and sky, Ilha da Armona
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sand, sea, and sky, Ilha da Armona
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Brave and principled and inspiring
"Today, a group of Columbia University students and alumni chained themselves to the campus gates, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi."
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
Students and alumni tether themselves to 116th and Amsterdam gates in protest of ICE detaining affiliates
Around two dozen protesters sat down in front of the 116th Street and Amsterdam gates at around 12:00 p.m. on Monday, with at least three tethering themselves to the gates with bike locks.
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Brave and principled and inspiring
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Great to see spine-stiffening example of @harvard.edu; refusal to bow to Trump's demands for staggering federal interference. Others following suit.
Assault on universities =
* assault on public purpose of education
* on freedom of thought
* on life-saving research
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Assault on universities =
* assault on public purpose of education
* on freedom of thought
* on life-saving research
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
www.thecrimson.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Great to see spine-stiffening example of @harvard.edu; refusal to bow to Trump's demands for staggering federal interference. Others following suit.
Assault on universities =
* assault on public purpose of education
* on freedom of thought
* on life-saving research
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Assault on universities =
* assault on public purpose of education
* on freedom of thought
* on life-saving research
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Cycling in the Rio Formosa Natural Park near Olhão, Portugal
April 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Cycling in the Rio Formosa Natural Park near Olhão, Portugal
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Jini did the most wonderful reading for us at our launch - lucky us!! And lucky us to have her writing, and that of these other brilliant writers, in our latest anthology 🚲
For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
April 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Jini did the most wonderful reading for us at our launch - lucky us!! And lucky us to have her writing, and that of these other brilliant writers, in our latest anthology 🚲
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"If still-living souls, crying out from Gaza to the outside world, are barely heard, how will ancient stones fare any better before they erode away, taking with them the history of a city and a people?"
Three powerful stories by young Palestinian writers in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Three powerful stories by young Palestinian writers in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writers
Authors from the We Are Not Numbers project on their dreams of becoming architects or artists, and a report on how a young woman found fulfilment in fast food
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"If still-living souls, crying out from Gaza to the outside world, are barely heard, how will ancient stones fare any better before they erode away, taking with them the history of a city and a people?"
Three powerful stories by young Palestinian writers in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Three powerful stories by young Palestinian writers in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
April 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
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I have heard from people in Gaza, and they are starving. There is a genuine fear too that this escalation is about taking the land forever.
I urget the gov't to recognise the state of Palestine because at some point it just won't exist anymore.
with Andrew Marr on LBC:
I urget the gov't to recognise the state of Palestine because at some point it just won't exist anymore.
with Andrew Marr on LBC:
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I have heard from people in Gaza, and they are starving. There is a genuine fear too that this escalation is about taking the land forever.
I urget the gov't to recognise the state of Palestine because at some point it just won't exist anymore.
with Andrew Marr on LBC:
I urget the gov't to recognise the state of Palestine because at some point it just won't exist anymore.
with Andrew Marr on LBC:
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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.
Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
The most beautiful book cover on my shelf, me thinks. Picasso’s Guernica, no less. (Was reminded of it in a piece about Pierce Brosnan in the FT. He spoke of his work as an artist and and how he adored the Dali cover on Sartre’s Nausea.)
April 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The most beautiful book cover on my shelf, me thinks. Picasso’s Guernica, no less. (Was reminded of it in a piece about Pierce Brosnan in the FT. He spoke of his work as an artist and and how he adored the Dali cover on Sartre’s Nausea.)